Four Seasons Beyond Vivaldi

Four Seasons Beyond Vivaldi

Apple Music Classical

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, a quartet of violin concertos completed around 1720, even today dominate season-themed music. Here, however, we take you on something of an alternative seasonal journey, from composer Alexey Shor’s violin-fuelled spring in modern Manhattan to 17th-century Thomas Simpson’s cheerful winter dance scored for viol consort. There are works by Piazzolla, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, and Spohr, as well as vocal music evoking the beauty of nature and rural life courtesy of Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons and Vaughan Williams’s cantata for women’s voices and orchestra, Folk Songs of the Four Seasons.

No. 10, October "Autumn Song"

Khatia Buniatishvili

4:55

VIII. Introduction to Winter (Original Version from The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3) [Arr. Sir Simon Rattle] (Live)

Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra

4:10

Spring

3:23

Ouverture D'eté Opus 28

Pierre Bartholomée, Orchestre Philharmonique de Lièage Communauté Française, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

7:19

Autumn

Stephanie Chua, Veronique Mathieu

2:30

No. 1, White Scenery

Olga Jegunova

5:51

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner

5:42

Memory of Summer

Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Timo Alakotila, Juha Kangas

5:00

Allegretto

Joost Gils

10:35

No. 2, L'été

2:28

D'un matin de printemps

Arie van Beek, Orchestre de Picardie

5:10

Spring 0 (2012)

André de Ridder, Max Richter, Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin

0:42

Spring 1 (2012)

André de Ridder, Max Richter, Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, Daniel Hope

2:31

Allegro di molto

John Eliot Gardiner, London Symphony Orchestra

6:22

L'Automne

James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

9:00

II. Winter Landscape

Sir Charles Mackerras, Welsh National Opera Orchestra

4:18

No. 9, Waltz of the Snowflakes

Sir Simon Rattle, LIBERA, Berlin Philharmonic

6:40

Spring

3:06

Summer of 1915, Op. 24

Philharmonia Orchestra, Christian Reif, Julia Bullock

14:45

Summer. Largo

Alfred Walter, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

4:58

Der Herbst: No. 20, Terzett mit Chor - "So lohnet die Natur den Fleiss"

Jeremy Ovenden, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Colin Davis, Andrew Foster-Williams, Miah Persson

7:00

The Augurs of Spring - Dance of the Young Girls

MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis

2:59

Game of Abduction

Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna

1:08

Spring Rounds

Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna

4:04

Summer Song

Bjarte Engeset, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

2:25

L'automne

François Leleux, Jean-François Verdier, Sebastien van Kuijk, Orchestre Victor Hugo

9:58

III. Rondes de printemps

San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas

7:19

II. Der Einsame im Herbst

Vladimir Jurowski, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Dame Sarah Connolly

9:11

IV. Epilogue

Okko Kamu, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

3:35

No. 6 Andante Grazioso in A, MWV U 161 - "Spring Song"

Daniel Barenboim

2:06

Movement IV

Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

7:05

II. Last Spring

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi

5:30

III. Imitation of Old Poem: Long Autumn Night

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Liping Zhang, Long YU

6:07

No. 2. Sommarsang (Summer Song)

Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Okko Kamu

2:16

II. Larghetto

Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin

6:24

No. 16, Winter Fairy

London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

1:14

IV. Autumn

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

12:08

Swedish Rhapsodie No. 1, Op. 19 - "Midsommarvaka"

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit

11:38

Automne

Sara Chenal, Olivier Pelmoine

2:25

III. Winter (Cadenza)

6:00

Symphonie de chambre No. 1, Op. 43 "Le printemps"

Darius Milhaud, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra

3:32

Largo from Concerto No. 2 "Les Plaisirs de L'Eté"

Dorothee Oberlinger, Ensemble 1700

2:33

III. Rustle of Spring

Christian Ihle Hadland, Bard Bratlie

2:55

III. L'Ottobrata

John Wilson, Sinfonia of London

7:51

I. Reveries of a Winter Journey. Allegro tranquillo

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra

11:20

V. Der Trunkene im Frühling (The Drunkard in Spring)

Jonas Kaufmann, Vienna Philharmonic, Jonathan Nott

4:25

I. Fan

The Sirius Viols

6:10

II. Allegro

New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

2:42

Vesna, Op. 13

Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Marek Štilec

13:03

Summer Night on the River

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner

5:13

Golden Autumn

4:37

II. Invierno Porteño

Dzeraldas Bidva, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Arabella Steinbacher

7:45

May Song

Dmitri Ensemble, Sir David Willcocks, English Voices, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

2:47

I. Allegro vivace assai

8:32

I - Spring

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner

5:39

Summertime / A Woman Is a Sometime Thing

Akira Eguchi, Gil Shaham

3:32

Gloominess of Autumn

Iikka Kotaja, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas

3:37

Für Erwachsenere: 38. Winterszeit I

2:17

IV. Winter

Duncan Honeybourne

2:11